“Thank you for your suggestion, Secretary Gregg. We’ll take that under advisement.”

“You’re welcome, Mr. President.”

The president shuffles his papers. “Now, as I was saying, we need to increase tax revenues. Does anyone else have anything to offer?”

Unfortunately, that’s when I woke up.

Sadly, that would never happen in real life. Judd Gregg simply doesn’t have the trouble-maker gene for it, and it would quite possibly make him the Cabinet secretary with the shortest career in history.